On Wednesday May 28 2003 05:26 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> BTW, I replaced both SCSI drives with the same brand names, i.e.,
> Plextor and Toshiba.
>
> My hardware is good - 512 megs of Corsair DDR Ram, AMD XP2100,
> Soyo Dragon MB.
>
> Tom, can you or anyone else offer suggestions as to how to get my
> IDE drives up to the level I'm used to SCSI? (its really during
> burning or duping that one really notes the difference).
Not really. I have no hands on scsi experience. As to IDE CD
drives, about the only optimization is to enable DMA. You can do
this after installin 'hdparm' by editing /etc/sysconfig/harddisks
and uncommenting, # USE_DMA=1 (remove the hash mark). Then cp
'harddisks' to 'harddiskhd?' where ? equals the drive letter for
each CD drive. Notice the last 's' was removed also. You'll need to
be root.
All that might not be necessary tho, check first with
'hdparm -v /dev/hd?' that it doesn't already show 'using_dma' as
=1 (on). Bottom line is CD drives are notoriously slow, no matter
the spin rate advertised. CD-RW's make better readers than plain
CDrom drives.
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